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The Metamorphosis

Written by: Franz Kafka
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
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"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug."

With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young traveling salesman who, transformed overnight into a giant, beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. Rather than being surprised at the transformation, the members of his family despise it as an impending burden upon themselves.

A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W. H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."

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“In The Metamorphosis Kafka reached the height of his mastery: he wrote something which he could never surpass, because there is nothing which The Metamorphosis could be surpassed by—one of the few great, perfect poetic works of this century.”

(Elias Canetti, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981)

“You will mark Kafka’s style. Its clarity, its precise and formal intonation in such striking contrast to the nightmare matter of his tale. No poetical metaphors ornament his stark black-and-white story. The limpidity of his style stresses the dark richness of his fantasy. Contrast and unity, style and matter, manner and plot are most perfectly integrated.”

(Vladimir Nabokov)
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The story picks up a bit slow, but the nonsensical methods of the people and their allegiances is mind blowing. A horrifying read!

A mind bending look inside the tyranny of no one

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The great German existantialist author, Franz Kafka tells the story of a young man who wakes up one morning to realise that he'd turned into an insect!
Then, read it to realise the change of the entire attitudes of his family and maid towards him, that's true in our daily lives, as all of us keep metamorphosed, so the behaviour of everyone towards us keeps changing!

People are metamorphosed without realising

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It explores a very important relationship between mind and body. For yourself u r what u think, for others u r what u appears to be and in between there is family & friends.

Interesting

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loved it. Really loved the narration and the story is truly captivating. I reminded me of the people suffering from locked in syndrome where they might not be able to move but can understand others. Highly recommended classic.

The thoughts of the protagonist.

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you can find something in it. Perhaps the family is the one who really experienced metamorphosis. But it was overall a over rated waste of time.

the story is mostly meaningless

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